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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Myths That Every Child Should Know

A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 16 more 11 hours 23 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been...

Marilyn Rakes and 12 more 11 hours 19 minutes

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Travel & Geography

436

Ernest Ingersoll - Book of the Ocean

The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such as its geography and the history of the exploration of the oceans. Besides the...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

War & Military

545

Tickner Edwardes - With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations...

Steve C 11 hours 4 minutes

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General

447

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Heroes Every Child Should Know

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative literature has...

Claudia Salto and 15 more 11 hours 1 minute

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Education

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Geology

Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1846 presents an introduction to geology. The information,...

Mich_elle and 8 more 10 hours 33 minutes

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Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches

Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Clark Russell - Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches

This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages.

Lala Young and 16 more 9 hours 58 minutes

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Nature

435

Tickner Edwardes - Lore of the Honey-Bee

The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I came under the glow of one brave June morning, threading field after field of...

Steve C 9 hours 51 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Biography & Autobiography

445

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Robin Cotter and 8 more 9 hours 39 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Travel & Geography

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Tickner Edwardes - Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear...

Steve C 9 hours 38 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

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Archibald Williams - Romance of Modern Invention

This is a volume of exploration into the newest inventions of the turn of the previous century. Journalist Archibald Williams walks the reader through diverse inventions which were changing the world at just that...

Kobe Dadd and 12 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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